semiarboreal
English
Etymology
semi- + arboreal
Adjective
semiarboreal (not comparable)
- (of a creature) Which sometimes dwells in trees.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV
- Its large toes protruded laterally as do those of the semiarboreal peoples of Borneo, the Philippines and other remote regions where low types still persist. The countenance might have been that of a cross between Pithecanthropus, the Java ape-man, and a daughter of the Piltdown race of prehistoric Sussex.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV